Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...state legislatures was void because it dealt a grant of power to the Federal Government so large that only state conventions of the people themselves could constitutionally approve the transfer. Judge Clark accepted this argument and expanded it into a monumental thesis of his own which packed twelve tight news-columns of print. The Judgment. Judge Clark reasoned as follows: 1) Article V of the Constitution provides for ratification of amendments "by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states or by conventions in three-fourths thereof." 2) Amendment X provides that "the powers not delegated to the United...
...somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should have succeeded ailing President Chacon but for the fact that he had recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan Constitution. The U. S. State Department was in a tight place. After the revolution in Brazil (TIME, Nov. 3), and now for the second time in three months, it had picked the wrong horse. Worst of all, having recognized Acting President Palma, it was duty-bound not to recognize Acting President Orellana. In 1923 Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes...
...MacDonald Government had not even yet disavowed the term "humbug," but Prime Minister Bennett with appropriate forbearance shook Mr. Thomas' hand at parting with a tight little smile. As the train chuffed out, Jim fairly carolled to correspondents...
Succeeding Mr. Wood was Andrew G. Pierce, a tight-mouthed man from New Bedford, Mass. Slowly he went about his task of strengthening the company. Inventories were gradually written down to their value. Cash was conserved although it meant passing preferred dividends. No lies were told about the company, and stockholders did not like to hear the truth. Lately Mr. Pierce has been anxious to resign, but it has been difficult to find a man to take his place...
...least one of their pictures." Subjects were of every variety except the sexy: clipper ships, famed fires, wood-burning locomotives, horse-racing, prizefights, pioneers, Prohibition propaganda, baseball, domestic scenes, deathbeds of the Presidents, etc., etc. Now collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens with lavish brushes. The 32 reproductions in this book give a good cross-section of the more than...